Movies: Heloísa Passos

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the out...

Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century....

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching crime that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined. At stake is nothing ...

Francisca and Carlos struggle to adapt to their new reality after the suicide of their only son, Felipe. Immersed in fantasies, fears and melancholy, the couple go through radical experiences. Carlos moves into Felipe's old apartment, alienating hims...

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region....

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers....

When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top pol...

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of ...

Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she beco...

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in R...

Ines is 21 years old and dreams of becoming an actress. In order to fulfil that dream, she decides to leave Brasília for São Paulo to appear as an extra in a popular soap opera. However, with no place to stay, she ends up staying at the Tiete Bus Ter...

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Video installation, in 16mm film....

Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."...

Heloisa receives a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the early 1980...

Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up,...

On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis R...

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship....

The dramatic documentary recounts eight stories of love affairs in which those involved experienced some kind of physical or psychological violence. The real cases are interpreted by professional actors. The question raised by the film is whether lov...

The daily routine of a streetwise office boy, waiting in long lines, having to deal with some fishy situations, listening to music, and meeting people....